Tradesman
A tradesman or skilled tradesman is a manual worker in a particular trade or craft requiring skill (i.e., the "skilled trades"). Tradesmen are contrasted with unskilled workers (laborers), agricultural workers, and professionals (those in the learned professions).
List of skilled trades
There is no standard list of types of trade, as definitions vary, with some lists being broader than others.
A June 2013 report by the Michigan Department of Technology, Management and Budget, however, generated the following list of trades (divided into industrial, construction, and service skilled trades), along with their Standard Occupational Classification System code:
- 47‐2011 Boilermakers
- 47‐2111 Electricians
- 47‐2152 Plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters
- 49‐2095 Electrical and electronics repairers, powerhouse, substation, and relay
- 49‐9041 Industrial machinery mechanics
- 49‐9043 Maintenance workers, machinery
- 49‐9044 Millwrights
- 49‐9069 Precision instrument and equipment repairers, all other
- 49‐9071 General maintenance and repair workers
- 49‐9096 Riggers
- 51‐4012 CNC machine tool programmers
- 51‐4041 Machinists
- 51‐4061 Model makers, metal and plastic
- 51‐4062 Patternmakers, metal and plastic
- 51‐4111 Tool and die makers
- 51‐4121 Welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers
- 51‐4194 Tool grinders, filers, and sharpeners
- 51‐7011 Cabinetmakers and bench carpenters
- 51‐7031 Model makers, wood
- 51‐7032 Patternmakers, wood
- 51‐8021 Stationary engineers and boiler operators
- 51‐8031 Water and wastewater treatment plant and system operators
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by Ijahman Levi
Tradesman
by: Ijahman LeviWanted sending out this warning
All over this land
Calling I'm giving out this warning Lord
For all upful tradesman wanted tradesman
I'm a carpenter by trade
Here I come with my hammer nails in hand
I'm ready to shelter needy furnish any apartment
A house is not a home till I pass through
I'm a mason by trade
Here I am with my shovel cement in sand
I'll decorate ghetto mansion I turn into a palace
Never mind how high or how I say
Wanted wanted sending out this warning
For all upful tradesman oh Lord
I'm a plumber by trade
Here I come with my spanner tools in bag
I'll run you a river not of tears
But of fresh clean water
I don't want no more plastic soda I say
Wanted wanted sending out this warning
For all upful tradesman oh Lord
Calling calling sending out this warning
All over this land oh Lord wanted tradesman
I'm a farmer by trade
Here I am sowing seeds in the land
The Earth need some moulding
Food to feed all colour all creed
Somewhere sometime for all season
I man is a handy man
Jack of all trade and master of none my friend
Never mind the skill I'm made of muscle and blood
Anything I'll do I can be helpful I say
Calling calling sending out this warning
For all upful tradesman oh Lord
Wanted wanted sending out this calling